Product Description: This study discusses the substance-tradition from Aristotle to Kant, Gödel, Quine, Strawson, Armstrong and others, the concept of matter and causation in quantum physics, Being-thinking from Aristotle to Heidegger, and system-building from Plato to Whitehead...read more

Product Description: This work is the first English translation of Scotus's commentary on Aristotle's Quaestiones super Praedicamenta. Although there are numerous Latin commentaries on Aristotle's Categories, Scotus's Questions is one of the few commentaries on the Categories written in the thirteenth century covering all of Aristotle's text, including the often neglected post-praedicamenta, and the only complete Latin commentary available in English...read more

Product Description: It is by fitting the world into neatly defined boxes that Buddhist, Hindu, and Jain philosophers were able to gain unparalleled insights into the nature of reality, God, language and thought itself. Such categories aimed to encompass the universe, the mind and the divine within an all-encompassing system, from linguistics to epistemology, logic and metaphysics, theology and the nature of reality...read more

Product Description: Gyorgy Tamas works in the philosophy of logic, that difficult interdisciplin­ ary region wherein the notion of categories is both basic and subtle. To understand ways of thinking, to understand patterns of whatever is real, to recognize what is possible and to reject the nonsensical and the impossible is to comprehend the categories...read more

Product Description: The notion of 'natural kinds' has been central to contemporary discussions of metaphysics and philosophy of science. Although explicitly articulated by nineteenth-century philosophers like Mill, Whewell and Venn, it has a much older history dating back to Plato and Aristotle...read more

Product Description: Distinguished metaphysicians examine issues central to the high-profile debate between philosophers over how to classify the natural world, and discuss issues in applied ontology such as the classification of diseases. Leading metaphysicians explore fundamental questions related to the classification and structure of the natural world An essential commentary on issues at the heart of the contemporary debate between philosophy and science Interweaves discussion of overarching themes with detailed material on applied ontology...read more

Product Description: Plato believes in the existence of Forms—eternal models or exemplars of which objects in our world in time and space are copies, and his Theory of Forms lies at the center of his philosophy. But according to the common wisdom, Plato raised the Third Man objection against his own Theory of Forms in the Parmenides...read more

Product Description: Only recently have researchers gradually begun to consider the categories of freedom developed by Kant in his Critique of Practical Reason. This treatise is the first to examine the topic comprehensively and systematically. Far from being the result of unimaginative systems thinking, a closer inspection reveals thedoctrine of practical categories to be a secret focal point of Kant s practical philosophy...read more

Product Description: Essentialism--roughly, the view that natural kinds have discrete essences, generating truths that are necessary but knowable only a posteriori--is an increasingly popular view in the metaphysics of science. At the same time, philosophers of language have been subjecting Kripke’s views about the existence and scope of the necessary a posteriori to rigorous analysis and criticism...read more

Product Description: Categories and categorizations form the core of scientific work as well as of the relationship with the world as a whole as construed by individuals and societies. The contributors to this volume analyze the formation of categories and the process of categorization from a number of different angles: linguistic systems and language, rituals and ritualization, heritage and literary, musical, or dance performances, social stratification and dynamics, and judicial codes...read more

Product Description: Ya-t-il des Idees? Peut-on demontrer leur existence? Quelles en sont les preuves et ont-elles toutes la meme valeur? Aristote aborde ces questions dans deux documents celebres de la controverse qui a oppose partisans et adversaires des Formes separees au sein de l'Academie de Platon: le traite perdu, cite par Alexandre d'Aphrodise sous le titre de Peri ideon, et le requisitoire qu'on peut lire, a quelques variations mineures pres, dans les livres A et M des Metaphysiques...read more

Product Description: Aristotle's Categories had an unparalleled influence on the history of metaphysical speculation. Despite its influence, however, two fundamental questions remain to this day unanswered: (1) how did Aristotle generate his list of categories? and (2) what is the relationship between Aristotle's categories and his other great metaphysical system: hylomorphism? In this book, Paul Studtmann develops and defends an interpretation that offers a unified and striking answer to both questions: Aristotle's system of categories is systematically derivable from hylomorphism, which in turn is derivable from general theses about the nature of being...read more

Product Description: Building theories of organizations is challenging: theories are partial and "folk" categories are fuzzy. The commonly used tools--first-order logic and its foundational set theory--are ill-suited for handling these complications...read more

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Product Description: This volume deals with thirteenth-century interpretations of Aristotle's "Categories," providing at the same time an introduction to some main themes of medieval philosophical logic. It analyzes various answers to the question whether the Aristotle's short and influential treatise is a logical or a metaphysical work, and to the connected question, whether categories are words, concepts, or things...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: Ibn Rushd (1126-1198), better known as Averroes, is said to be the greatest among the Muslim commentators on Aristotle and is especially known for his influence on medieval Christendom and on medieval and Renaissance science and philosophy...read more

Product Description: Presenting the text of the transcendental deduction of the categories part by part, often only a few lines at a time, this book follows each part with explanation, commentary, and criticism where this is necessary in bringing out Kant's thought...read more

Product Description: The book is an original treatise designed to defend an original, non-Aristotelian theory of categories. Chisholm argues that there are necessary things and contingent things; necessary things being things that are not capable of coming into being or passing away...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)